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Reply 1
Im getting Deja Vu, hasnt there already been a few useless fact threads?
1 It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.

2 No president of the United States was an only child.

3 In Maine, it's illegal for a police officer to tell you to have a nice day after giving you a traffic ticket.

4 The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.

5 Five flavors of jelly that never sold because they tasted so bad: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
KdySk8rGirl
Im getting Deja Vu, hasnt there already been a few useless fact threads?

This is a competition between me and my arch rival to see who can come up with the most random info.
Reply 4
KdySk8rGirl
Im getting Deja Vu, hasnt there already been a few useless fact threads?


Yup I think so.....but never the less

....if u cut the head off a beetle.....it doesnt die because of that...it dies because of starvation....2-3 weeks later.........
Reply 5
AndrewsJoseph
ANDREWSJOSEPH vs JANEALAMS

Finally here u r please no like 1-5 5-10 it will easier to count.
6 A duck's quack doesn't echo.

7 On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

8 No word in the English language rhymes with 'Month' or 'Orange'

9 The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

10 All polar bears are left handed.
Reply 7
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1. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
2. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
3. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
4. All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
5. No word in the English language rhymes with month.
Reply 8
6. A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
7. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
8. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
9. The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
10. The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.'
11 The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.

12 Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

13 There are more than 1,00 chemicals in a cup of coffee.

14 If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green (this is true, but it has always had colouring in it, so it was never green when sold).
Reply 10
11. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
12. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
13. The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
14. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
15. Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
Janealams
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5. No word in the English language rhymes with month.


STOP COPYING!
Reply 12
16. On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
17. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
18. Almonds are members of the peach family.
19. If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050
20. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
15 A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Reply 14
AndrewsJoseph
6 A duck's quack doesn't echo.

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That is an urban myth :smile:
Reply 15
AndrewsJoseph
STOP COPYING!

I didnt n i told u b4 too that same facts will not count towards end result.
16. Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
17 The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia.
Reply 17
21. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 calibermachine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
22. The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
23. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
24. Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
25. Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
18 Most lipstick contains fish scales
19 A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
20 A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
Reply 19
26. What causes a landslide?

Intense rainfall over a short period of time can trigger shallow, fast-moving mud and debris flows. Slow, steady rainfall over a long period of time may trigger deeper, slow-moving landslides. Different materials behave differently, too. Every year as much as $2 billion in landslide damage occurs in the United States. In a record-breaking storm in the San Francisco area in January 1982, some 18,000 debris flows were triggered during a single night! Property damage was over $66 million, and 25 people died.

27. How fast can mud flow?

Debris flows are like mud avalanches that can move at speeds in excess of 100 mph (160 kph).

28. Do things inside Earth flow?

You bet. In fact, scientists found in 1999 that molten material in and around Earth's core moves in vortices, swirling pockets whose dynamics are similar to tornadoes and hurricanes. And as you'll learn later in this list, the planet's core moves in other strange ways, too.

29. What is the wettest place on Earth?

Lloro, Colombia averages 523.6 inches of rainfall a year, or more than 40 feet (13 meters). That's about 10 times more than fairly wet major cities in Europe or the United States.

30. Does Earth go through phases, like the Moon?

From Mars, Earth would be seen to go through distinct phases (just as we see Venus change phases). Earth is inside the orbit of Mars, and as the two planets travel around the Sun, sunlight would strike our home planet from different angles during the year. Earth phases can be seen in recent photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor and the European Mars Express.